Patronuses (was Re: Dumbledore: Patronus and Dementors (specifically Snape's)

[marion11111]

No: HPFGUIDX 173946

Marion1111 wrote:
> > If we're going with the unrequited love theory, then maybe
> > Sirius' was a stag? <cackling Peevishly and winking>
>
> Potioncat:
> No, it would have been a wolf. ;p

marion:
Yeah, well, we all have our little ships.  Do suppose the filmmakers gave Ginny a horse because it's a hoofed animal?  Or weren't they thinking about that at all?


> Potioncat:
> I'm not sure if I ever mentioned this before, but the Patronus
> reflects the caster's source of protection; it does not reflect the
> person who casts the spell.

marion:
Yes, but in the version of the book that I was writing in my head, I wanted to see the patronuses as being similar to the daemons in Pullman's His Dark Materials triliogy.  I imagined them as representative of the person and unchangable.  I was willing to accept Harry having his father's as maybe a "passing on the tradition" thing, but I wasn't sure I liked that Tonks' had to change over Lupin.

> Potioncat:
> On a side note. I'm sure Snape's comment to Tonks about her
> Patronus being weak, was his way of saying Lupin was weak. Still,
> I'd like to know what the earlier one was.

marion:
At the time, I though he was being spiteful.  And he was, but now I wonder if he was making a comment about himself also.